-1 as last item problem

[Dar Scott]

On May 13, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

>
> repeat 10 times; get item 1 to -1 of it; end repeat
>
> I would have nothing left. But:
>
> repeat 10 times; get item 1 to 100 of it; end repeat
>
> would preserve all the commas.

You are right.  I got on the wrong soapbox.  But a related one and it 
might explain why the bug you mentioned cropped up.

A workaround might be to have some symbol for an empty item.  That 
would also address the problem of representing a 0 item list vs a 1 
item list holding nothing.

dar

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